Hi Jenny,
No matter how 'green' a suburb means to be, people mean increase in rats
and mice, which means more cats and foxes, which means less native birds
and small mammals!
There will always be more people in Canberra; it is not like 90,000 is the
last of people to be settled. Eventually we will have to start building up
and not out. Why not now?
At some point we have to decide whether nature reserves as for aesthetics
or for real conservation purposes.
Cheers
Brett
> Greetings all: I note with interest the debate on the chatline re the
> suburb of Forde. A number of people, including me and others in the
> Conservation Council, campaigned against development of Forde and Bonner,
> arguing for greater buffers for the reserves. While we did not achieve
> this, positives are that there will be edge roads rather than backyards
> abutting the reserves, and we did manage to achieve cat containment rules
> for the new suburbs - a first in the ACT. And while the Forde development
> may not be ideal in some eyes, they have more green credentials than any
> of the developers of other Gungahlin suburbs before them; they are doing
> some good things like the restored creekline using local provenance, which
> will run through the suburb from Mulligans (Greening Aust is in
> partnership re this) and have engaged the future residents about valuing
> and protecting the local nature reserves.
>
> Ideally, we would like to see Mulligans and Gooroo left natural and well
> buffered from urban influences, but this is not possible with 90,000
> people living on the doorsteps. I believe the ANU/ACT Government research
> and the predator proof fence, will save these reserves from becoming just
> another degraded nature park in the system. And, hopefully, the research
> will influence the future planning of what will be Throsby (viz the neck
> between Mulligans and Gooroo), and eventually mean the re-drawing of the
> future urban edge back nearer to Horse Park Drive.
> cheers
> Jenny
>
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